Definitions
Accepted or valid in court
What is admissible?
The witness talks excessively about their grandma's pie recipes.
What is "Objection, Your Honor, to relevance"?
What is The bar for relevance in Midlands is EXTREMELY LOW?
What governs what is and isn't allowed in trial.
Hint: What MRE stands for.
What is Midlands Rules of Evidence?
Relevance
What is Rule 401?
Not accepted in court
What is inadmissible?
Character Witness: "I believe that MG&E was not negligent in this fire but that's just my opinion."
What is 701?
Your arguments in an objection battle should be:
What is clear, concise, and confident?
What you must do so your witness can give expert testimony.
More Prejudicial than Probative
What is Rule 403?
The objection you use when something is said that doesn't have anything to do with the case. (bonus points for rule number)
What is (401) relevance?
The witness says, "In my professional opinion..." but did not tell the jury about any method. (Explain)
What is "Objection, your Honor, to 702: Improper Expert Testimony. The witness did not fulfill Prong C which means they did not provide any method. Therefore, they cannot provide expert testimony.
Objection to 702: Improper Expert Testimony. The witness did not hit prong A. (Explain)
What is "Your honor, the witness very clearly laid out their educational background and work experience, which directly pertains to our case today. Therefore, we hit prong A."?
An educational background, materials being sufficient, and a method was explained to establish a character witness. What prong was forgotten?
What is 702 Prong D: Method reliably applied?
What is Rule 701?
The objection you use for every expert.
What is (702) Improper Expert Testimony?
Attorney asks your witness:
Q1: But you claim you didn’t kill him?
Q2: You are telling us today you didn’t take that gun and shoot him?
Q3: You want us to believe you really had nothing to do with his death?
What is "Objection, Your Honor, to 403 More Prejudicial than Probative"?
The first thing you say when getting objected to for More Prejudicial than Probative.
What is "The prejudicial value must SUBSTANTIALLY outweigh the probative value."?
A lay witness opinion must be based on this.
What is rationally based on the witness's perception?
Testimony by Expert Witness
What is Rule 702?
The objection you use when opposing counsel is needlessly presenting cumulative evidence.
What is (403) More Prejudicial than Probative?
Opposing counsel introduces aggressive notes by the defendant that don't technically pertain to the case.
What is "Objection, Your Honor, More Prejudicial than Probative."?
You introduce aggressive notes from the defendant and you get objected to for misleading the jury. This is what you focus on in your response.
What is the relevance and importance of the evidence outweighs?
Reasons the court will exclude relevant evidence. (at least 3)
Hint: Rule 403
What is unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, wasting time, unnecessarily cumulative?
The prongs of Rule 702.
A) educational background/work experience
B) sufficient materials
C) reliable method
D) reliably applied the method?